The Giant Frog That Ate Dinosaurs

Everything was messed up and more dangerous during the Mesozoic. You had theropods, titanic sauropods, fortified ankylosaurs, giant crocs, and frogs. Yes, that's right even the frogs were messed up as demonstrated by Beelzebufo the dinosaur eating giant, that may have been the largest frog to ever live.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Scary Name Meaning & Discovery
1:20 Body Size
2:21 Only Babies Have Been Found So Far?
2:41 Its Devil Horns
3:17 Special Anti-Dinosaur Armor
4:03 Bone-Crushing Bite Force
5:00 Its Dino Diet
5:28 Other Animals It Ate
5:50 A Tongue So Soft It Was Lethal
6:21 Saliva That Defies Laws of Physics
6:56 A Bad Temper That Matches Its Looks
7:23 Agility Abilities
7:50 Habitats & Climate
8:07 Animals It Lived With
9:08 How Beelzebufo Proved South America and Madagascar Were Connected
10:24 Extinction Cause
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[@joshflugel]

I want to believe Belzebuffo was at least the size of a pitbull.

[@zionboone3804]

Have ark tell it it’s huge 😂

[@NTJedi]

Title of video says Giant, but in reality it was just a slightly larger frog than today.

[@kristijankuzman9532]

​@@NTJedi that frog was the size of today hippo!

[@thedudeman2106]

Like the musician?

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

​@@kristijankuzman9532😂 what?! No it wasn't. It was maybe about the size of a large cat. Definitely Not a hippopotamus!

[@sethnaffziger1402]

Considering how ravenous a normal pac-man frog is today, Buffo had to be an absolute menace... sheesh stepping near that thing would be like accidentally stepping on a leg trap 😅

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

And any animal lighter than 2kg, ancient or modern, are on the menu for these frogs.

[@bzilla1090]

Frogs are probably the most insane predators, Goliath Frogs literally eat anything in sight that's big enough to fit in it's mouth, and they're about 36cm/12" in size which is just mental

[@slwrabbits]

big mouth go nom nom

[@Wildera-usa]

This video blew my mind! Beelzebufo, the devil frog, emerges as a true heavyweight of the Cretaceous period. Its unique adaptations, including bone armor and a ferocious bite, make it a standout among ancient amphibians. The discussion on its potential role in the ecosystem, as both predator and prey, offers valuable insights into the dynamics of prehistoric life. A definite highlight for anyone with an interest in paleontology or natural history!

[@bobhope4949]

PAC man is a lil yellow ball not a frog son

[@user-ev1fu7sn6s]

Ark beelzebufo is one of the only animals where if you try to knock it out, it probably knock you out first.

[@ETGAAD]

And the titanaboa

[@serpentine-nc6en]

pachy : titanoboa: thorny dragon : araneo : scorpion : equus : basilisk : tusoteuthis : cnidaria :

[@benedictfrancisco2333]

It wont kill you the barionix wil

[@AZTR0N0MICAL04]

​@@serpentine-nc6enhow u not gonna out run a scorpion?

[@serpentine-nc6en]

@@AZTR0N0MICAL04 i mean youre trying to knock it out so

[@Gamurboi]

This video is brought to you by: Island gigantism, bringing horrors to this world since 300 million BC.

[@2degucitas]

Island gigantism and dwarfism battle it out. Who will win?

[@connycontainer9459]

Which islands date back to 300 million BC ?

[@JustSomeDude42]

Counter point, tiny mammoths are adorable so I’d take the good with the bad.

[@IdiotLocally]

@@2degucitasShantungosaurus throws hands with all of them

[@JohnSmith-ik8nt]

Not funny 300 people who thumbed up your comment aren't funny

[@321ssteeeeeve]

Beelzebub - “lord of flies”, perfect name

[@Intrusion498]

Beelzebufo to a baby masiakasaurus:I AM ABOUT TO KERMIT MURDER

[@tomarmadiyer2698]

This comment needs more appreciation.

[@Soccercrazyigboman]

Srsly this comment is underrated

[@sergiomeza3195]

The following house household pets that would be at risk- 1. Housecats 2. Small dogs 3. Small birds like parakeets, cockatoo's, and parrots. 4. Any pet lizard (accept maybe for a full grown monitor lizard) 5. Most pet snakes. 6. Any insect.

[@roninalienman]

10 bucks says "house cat" (felis domesticus) beats "chihuahua frog" (beelzebufo ampinga).

[@BSIII]

Beezlebufo is one of the coolest names ever 🐸

[@petersmythe6462]

"2200 N" That is... Kind of nuts. If true, that would imply it probably could bite harder than a decent-sized polar bear, and has a bite force quotient somewhere in the high 1600s.

[@alexissantos125]

bruh naming a frog lord of the flies is insanely badass ngl

[@aaronpanietz]

The bite force sounds wildly overshot to me, would be crazy if it came to be true!

[@Li_Tobler]

7:23 omg 😭🥺🥺🥺😊That looked so cute that I want to encourage him! You're doing great little guy 🥺😁

[@Cec9e13]

I know, I want to give him scritchies and reassurance.

[@Cheezy_unit_no.5]

When he fell off the peice of wood I was like Nooooo🥺🥺

[@Li_Tobler]

@PuroSnisterlook omg! I want to cheer you up and hug you too lol! So nice that I've got a kindred spirit in this 😊🥰

[@Cheezy_unit_no.5]

@@Li_Tobler I felt like that guy when I was playing a dino game I fell off a piece of wood to some body of water and I got prayed upon by a croc😖

[@byzantineroman2407]

I met the paleontologist who discovered this frog.

[@D1noPalaeo]

Damn

[@tvbnine793]

Is this said paleontologist cool or more like Kanye West

[@byzantineroman2407]

@@tvbnine793 More like Axel F

[@lennycarey7042]

Here's a cookie 🍪

[@dagtheking5739]

@@tvbnine793I’d be cool with Kanye as long as we’re watching Gracie Bon together.

[@AncientAnimalAtlas]

Why did the Beelzebufo refuse to update its software? Because every time it tried, it got a "bug" in the system and ended up feeling toad-ally frustrated! 😁

[@detramwings6969]

Take my like and leave

[@lorenzo689]

This is awful lmao

[@guitarsolo.]

😐

[@NobleCaveman]

Thanks great grandpa

[@sukdevray7568]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@KingKyrool]

Yea seeing how big bullfrogs can get and the idea of frogs being walking stomachs, they must have been really good ambush predators in those settings.

[@iDxnii.]

I thought Beelzebufo would atleast be the size of a tiger Welp I was damn wrong

[@Drugs_Potato]

ark lied to us

[@iamlouis1495]

@@Drugs_Potato of course they lied to you, it's just a video game.

[@Drugs_Potato]

@@iamlouis1495 yes, thats the joke

[@eljanrimsa5843]

they haven't found the fully grown adult yet

[@whyareyousubbing]

​@@eljanrimsa5843w h a t

[@nyobunknown6983]

The only dinosaur this frog could eat was one recently hatched.

[@jsyyanzon2258]

The beelzebufo could also eat small dinosaurs and animals like newborns adult oviraptors, chompocognathus, a baby dimetrodon, an baby zebra shark, could eat more frogs insects, birds, raptors, newborn ankylosaurus, and other more

[@AA-to1xe]

If it fits he eats ​@@jsyyanzon2258

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

A frog will ear anything that moves and will fit in it's mouth. Naturally this eliminates anything that is larger than the frog and they can't chew and won't wear carrion.

[@belongaskip]

this channel has popped off in less than 2 years. grats dude

[@bleikrsound6127]

Frogs in the Southern US can be as big as a plate, and will eat baby chicks, so frogs are still eating dinosaurs.

[@thevictorian8920]

Bro the guy who named it deserves a raise

[@nicks1451]

Ain’t no way that thing had a bite force stronger than a leopard. I’m calling shenanigans

[@the.mr.schrader]

Leopards Have Surprisingly Weak Bite Forces. It Only Bites At About 300 PSI.

[@dr8121]

Pretty sure that was a jaguar shown here too

[@sethnaffziger1402]

lol nope jaguars have a MUCH larger "forehead" size. Take the leopard in this video, and cross it's appearance with a pitbull and you've got yourself a Jag. ​@@dr8121

[@Jacob-sb3su]

Ok? And?

[@daveyhouston]

Agreed!!!

[@impcec6734]

Gotta love a video that covers a little freak, but also shouts out continental drift.

[@Elephant-Dude31077]

Beezlebufo really was one "Built Different Fwoggy"🐸

[@iamtheblood1391]

love your work

[@PhishyBusiness]

I remember reading fablehaven as a kid and Olloch, a demonic frog, was based off of the beelzebufo

[@eobardthawn6903]

Oh yeah i read that too as a kid. The best part of it is when they found zombies. 😂

[@joyjoyace]

Oh my god, I've never met anyone else who read those books

[@Da_bear-ij9gm]

Loved these books! Discovered them after playing the video game

[@AmitBiswas0142]

Can you make a video on the probable largest snake Vasuki Indicus recently discovered, which estimates its size to be bigger than Titanoboa...

[@shinigamit0d142]

so Frog designs in Naruto were inspired by reality

[@wingy200]

1:47 All glory to the Hypnotoad......................

[@ABC-tt7qe]

I had a weird dream once, long before I’d even known these frogs existed. They were were green, the color of grass, camouflaging seamlessly in the scenery. They hunted in large packs of 6-10 and were the size of large cats. Their tongues were very powerful and extremely sticky and once it attached to something, it had the force to yank off one’s arm as it pulled it back. They would then collectively tear off chunks of their prey with their tongues and digest them alive. The dream was so unsettling and frightening, I hopped on Google to see if such a thing ever existed, and as it turns out, the damn thing did. I’ve had so many different weird dreams about prehistoric insects, sea life and animals, it’s crazy. Always makes me wonder if there’s some validity to them, just as I’d dreamt of these demons.

[@chrisd7733]

The land bridge to South America via Antarctica seems a lot less plausible than the possibility that Beelzebufo is a holdover from the Triassic Pangea, with Beelzebufo just facing a rapid extraction in mainland Africa after the breakup.

[@slwrabbits]

I was wondering about convergent evolution. The lesser tenrec looks almost exactly like a hedgehog, but is not closely related. It too is a native of Madagascar. Perhaps a similar process happened to these frogs.

[@iksarguards]

The idea of an osified frog is almost oxymoronic

[@clayc5929]

Haters gonna hate

[@Elephant-Dude31077]

And thanks man for talking about my favorite Animal in Prehistoric Planet.. Boi was so THICC tbh🐸 And Kermit's ancestors really stood a chance... 7:20

[@t.kersten7695]

ancient Kermit was even built heavier than Miss Piggy

[@adriannegrete9586]

That is a nice animation slides you created. Perhaps, you can work with Edge Science wherever you and he decides.

[@terrorfisch]

7:25 that slide was hilarious

[@flowersofedo732]

Brother spent half the video casting some crazy incantations but I'm here for it

[@s_napps]

Frogs are my favorite animals and beelzebufo is my new favorite; a little vicious tank of a frog with an absolute badass name? 10/10

[@kalimaude3532]

I saw this thumbnail and title, took a moment to process. Then I delightedly gasped, out loud, "Beezlebufo!" I j-... I just didn't really know that I had that amount of feeling about beezlebufo, or in anything resembling that way. Like I'm watching live television at home and they're doing an interview with a respected expert, and he comes on screen and it is my wonderful handsome son beezlebufo who looks so good in his suit on TV! That kind of area of emotion. It's just a lot to take in, learning you feel that way about anything. Let alone largest frogge. Anyway, excellent the whole way through, subscribed.

[@GideonGreene-qm7co]

Beelzebufo actually had a short tongue, so it relied on patience to hunt its prey.

[@Da_bear-ij9gm]

How can we determine details about things composed only of soft tissue when we only have bones (fossils) to make inferences from?

[@justadildeau]

Suspend you logic, we are in the realm of imagination these days​@Da_bear-ij9gm

[@goosechuck]

Thank you 🌸 You are appreciated 🌸

[@erikm8372]

Wow, they’re similar in size to the Goliath frog… I always thought _Beelzebufo_ was like, the size of miniature horse, or a sheep, or something like that! When articles mention that it ate “baby dinosaurs” and other things, which is absolutely possible, I was picturing it being significantly bigger and eating adult dromaeosaurs, like medium-sized species. But then again, prehistoric insects (and their larvae) were also larger and likely made up a large percentage of amphibian’s diets.

[@jesuscazares3201]

New videogame idea: The end of the flies Your playing as a fly In the same habitat as the belzebuffo And you need to discover weapons like sticks and rocks and at the end you are face to face with BELZEBUFFO Attack:200 Defense:200 The all great belzebuffo the journey is over but belzebuffo is ready to stop you No matter it takes

[@ameerali5506]

Do a video on sarcosuchus pls

[@Elephant-Dude31077]

"Before there was life, There was nothing, Before there was nothing... There were Monsters"

[@StarWarsJay]

I thought it was going to be the size of a buss looking at the thumbnail 😂

[@predabot__6778]

Higher... bite-force... than a LEOPARD! :O Well I'll be damned...

[@andrew24601]

Ooooh, KZbin algorithm coming in clutch today! Earned a sub from me :)

[@Confusion534]

You should make a video on Titanaboa

[@minimalself]

5:55 and 6:40 had me think if i was walking along on a comfortable evening with a friend, across from them a pink slimy tounge moving fast as a bolt of light and closing in...

[@misterx168]

4:47 That's a Jaguar

[@DanielFalca0]

By reverse search image I think you might be correct. Source: animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/strongest-animal-bite-in-the-world.htm

[@adamwelch4336]

not surprised beazabufo is such a interesting and powerful beast Madagascar has always been a incredible biodiverse place about ten million years ago there were giant gorrila sized lemurs! 😮

[@zripster]

With that kind of bite force and poor mobility, I feel it would have made sense for it to have been a scavenger, as well as an ambush predator, sort of like an aquatic wolverine

[@dennisyoung4631]

Was hoping it was closer to a ton. It would then be fit for the parody, “riders ON the toad.”

[@TrineDaely]

Considering the size of bugs back then a big mouth and strong bite wouldn't be a surprise. Did he have a silver tongue?

[@nemonomen3340]

Beelzebufo Ampinga may mean "devil frog" but I find it even more appropriate considering Beelzebub is known as the "Lord of Flies".

[@Jonathan-oz9tc]

1:30 bro the frog looking into my soul

[@KoleThompson-hh3iw]

If you can do a video about the Ursus maritimus tyrannus also known as an extinct subspecies of polar bear please

[@86daniel]

for some reason i was expecting it to be the size of a volkswagen beetle

[@Deus-Vult_Against_the_bots]

Paleontologists: This is a frog that is the size of a cat and could bite your hand off. Ark players: Cementing boi

[@OldScratch81]

A 275 lbs jaguar can crack a turtle shell , a 7 lbs frog, maybe it ate snails small crabs or something

[@alonrosenzweig8145]

Take in mind some storms may carry frogs and fish thousands of miles of their basic residence and some of them may survive it while reaching the destination... it could be the case here as well, even if the continents weren't connected.

[@YochevedDesigns]

I want to get a Pacman frog now, just so I can name him that!

[@OOO-gm2sn]

what is this scene from? at 2:17 thanks

[@wethefreeproductions]

Thats the toad you get as an animal companion in D&D.

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

I like to imagine a world where somehow beelzebufo evolved to become fully aquatic and eventually became a sea-dwelling frog whale.

[@DavyCDiamondback]

Beelzabufo has a tadpole set aside for me!

[@michaelbuono4007]

What’s the next video going to be about?

[@Metalmenace_]

After just reading the title, I pictured a frog with a tiny voice threatening humans. "Fear me! I will crush you human; like my ancestors did! We were giants!"

[@RedfishCarolina]

Beelzebufo is the most badass genus name ever

[@MasterFlores35]

All hail the Hypnotoad 😵‍💫

[@CarlCoppinger]

Hypnotoad is lord.😊

[@MasterFlores35]

@@CarlCoppinger hypnotoad is life and salvation 😆

[@Hedgeknight420]

I want a beelzebufo as a pet wow

[@motionsparkesstudios]

Just get a pacman frog they are very close relatives

[@abdulazizrex]

You should make video about the unnamed giant Eocene frog from south America the was much bigger than this one.

[@tomhutchins7495]

"Beelzebufo" is the best animal name I've seen in a long time.

[@Eye_Exist]

I wonder why so many paleontology YTers has started to mimic the identical speech pattern to Moth Light Media. I don't know if he was the original either but has spoken this way the longest that i know.

[@Ajzan1]

Now I want to make a Fakemon (fan created Pokemon) based on tyhis guy. It would be a Dark-type (secong typing to consider) with obvious devil traits like horns or red skin. It would be a Bug-type but would know some moves like Infestation or the order moves in reference to Lord of the Flies.

[@kaantheviperunverdi7735]

Would like to see a video about Yangchuanosaurus on this channel. Also about Austroraptor

[@vectorfox4782]

Don’t go to the past. Everything can and will try to kill you. :/

[@MultiTequilaSunrise]

Beelzebufo 100% sounds like the name of some college frat dude-bro

[@MistyMountainPath]

Imagine that singing voice HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY HONEY

[@VFella]

Labyrinthodons were also closely related to frogs AFAIK. These were from the Devonian though.

[@melanieruddy399]

I always wake up in the Cretaceous. Then I realize when I actually am

[@hyper8545]

Imagine the cry of this frog 🐸 like the ones you see in clips today. Must have been a battle cry for the frog gods. BREEEEEEEE 🐸

[@christadauria4362]

Pre- historic giant frog was larger than Beelzebufo or Goiath frog?

[@reme7903]

It's really hard to believe that a frog could bite harder than a leopard.

[@pedrogabrielduarte4544]

Make a vídeo about arthropleura

[@a.edmonstone2003]

Advert at the start of the video: fair enough. Advert less that 2 mins after the video started: wtf?

[@SunnyIlha]

Let me just guess they're gonna unearth one that's 8 feet long by 6 feet wide.

[@jessmccart3937]

Kermit's ancestor was making a pig of himself.

[@KurusuPanda]

5:31 croc puppy 🥺

[@omega-xk4gj]

I have Frog Phobia and the thought of a Frog the Size of a Dog is not something I'm mentally prepared to attempt to consider

[@danilodesouza6461]

I had no idea there were Araripesuchus in Madagascar. How did they get there? Gondwana had started to break apart long before that. Can't wiat for more answers for that

[@2degucitas]

They swam?

[@danilodesouza6461]

@2degucitas so, they swam to Africa, crossed the entire continent, and then swam some more to reach Madagascar? Is that what you're saying?

[@2degucitas]

@@danilodesouza6461 Yeah, it sounds silly. I guess we have to start with when did they appear in the geologic record and calculate how far apart the land masses are. It could be that the frogs were in Madagascar before the tectonic plates moved. Another possibility is birds eating the eggs, flying to the area and disgorging (throw up) the crop contents while feeding their chicks. Do you have any ideas to add?

[@danilodesouza6461]

@2degucitas araripesuchus was no frog, mate. It was a 40kg land croc from late cretaceous South America. I like your thoughts on migratory flying animals regurgitating eggs (or even bones) far away from their native range, though

[@mansquatch73]

Bufo ? Related to cane toads ? Probably poisonous too

[@motionsparkesstudios]

No related to pacman frogs no relation to toads

[@johngladman4291]

Consider how much larger animal were in the past. It’s hard to believe the largest from wasn’t much, MUCH bigger.

[@nicolaywoods9817]

Hypno-toad says get in my belly.

[@sammuson4877]

They realized it had a massive mouth

[@remliqa]

2:16- 2:19 What is the source for this clip ?

[@GenghisDon1970]

wonderful video, well done explaining frogs as well as the specific extinct devil frog

[@gaautamk7382]

Ark beelzebufo be like you knocku me I knocku you

[@taitcarrillo8926]

Madagascar connecting to South America is really interesting but it has evidence for both arguments. The ecology of Madagascar is very similar to South America. The mantellas in Madagascar are distantly related to the dart frogs in South America, but interestingly the boas in Madagascar are more related to mainland African pythons than South American boas. Interest food for though.

[@Littlemilkjug533]

I’m Puerto Rico we have sapo cochones and they get big af